What every family wants : the family physician : containing simple remedies, easily obtained, for the cure of disease in all its forms / by Rachel M. Watson, M.D.

  • Watson, Rachel M.
Date:
1868
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    Samuel Thomson, like most reformers, has endured in our county of Essex as much severe persecution as ever was perpetrated in it; which is saying a great deal, when we call to mind the days of the delusion of witchcraft. Though capi- tally indicted for murder by using lobelia, he was discharged without a trial, after something like a reprimand of a solicitor-general by the Court. Yet it is remarkable that Chief Justice Parsons deemed it worth while to write the report of it in the fourth Vol. of Tyng's Collections. I feel diffident and doubtful whether I have said too much or too little on a subject that will increase in importance with time. B,eformers—originators and exterminators of loathsome and shocking dis- eases, are always considered benefactors of the whole human race—not merely those who are now living, but of those who shall live after us, as long as letters and other records shall endure. Benjamin Waterhouse. To Samuel Thomson, Boston. No. IV. Letter to.S. L. Mitchell, M.D., L.L. D., of the city of New York.] Cambridge, Dec. 19th, 1825. Dear Sir:—Dr. Samuel Thomson, who has the honor of introducing the valuable Lobelia into use, and fully proved its efficacy and safety, will deliver you this. He has cured and relieved many